ACCUSPLIT Pro Survivor - A601X Stopwatch, Clock, Extra Large Display

Works great and it's waterproof. So far, the battery life has been great. Great value for the price. It's easy to use and shift between the settings.

The ACCUSPLIT A601X might feel cheap because of the lightweight but its performance is top notch. I've been using mine daily for about a week to time my walks and exercises. I bought it primarily because I was using a Casio Lineage watch to time those things. I don't wear my glasses on walks because I wear sunglasses instead and the small LCD display on my Casio was hard to read while walking. The ACCUSPLIT solved that problem and then some. I can read it at a quick glance unlike my Casio which took me several seconds to get a good look at it. Take a look at my picture. You can see how much larger the display on the ACCUSPLIT is. This stopwatch is also very easy to use. It's accurate and the buttons are responsive but not so responsive that you can accidentally push them. The buttons are very well designed. I've included a picture of the clock setting instructions as well. They are part of the paper lining. Not a separate pamphlet. Don't throw away the packaging until you find the clock setting instructions. They were easy to follow but I would have had a heck of a time without them. Great stopwatch at a very reasonable price. I'm glad I bought one.

Their website claims they are one of the original digital stopwatches, and reportedly was the official stopwatch for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. Some reviewers complained it was hard to figure out how to set the date, time and calendar, which was true for me, even WITH the instructions, which are NOT included. The description of this stopwatch on the ACCUSPLIT website states the instructions ARE included, BUT the listing here on Amazon has a disclaimer emphasizing the instructions are NOT included. Fortunately, the Amazon listing has link for a PDF file of the instructions, which is dated 2020. I discovered the ACCUSPLIT website also has a copy of instructions for this stopwatch, dated 2015, that were slightly different from the instructions available in this listing. It was not possible to include the PDF files of the two variant instructions in this review, so I uploaded screenshots of the two variant instruction; I hope the print is still legible. With some help from the confusing instructions, and lots of Trial and Error, I was finally able to get the correct TIME, and numbers corresponding to the Month and Day programed into this device, so when not being used as a stopwatch, it will display TIME like a watch. And for some reason, you are also able to store an unchanging TIME in memory. You can set it to display the watch time as AM / PM or 24 hr time. The instructions tell you to go to the ACCUSPLIT website for an explanation on how to change the battery, implying if you aren’t careful, it might compromise the claimed ‘waterproof’ feature. Searching their website provided NO DESCRIPTION on how to change the battery. The ’new’ stopwatch I received, was DEAD ON ARRIVAL! (Accusplit claims this stopwatch is supposed to have a 5 year battery!) As a last resort, before having to go through the hassle and wasted time of returning it back to Amazon, and waiting for a replacement, I got a replacement battery. Upon examining the back of the stopwatch, observed 6 very tiny screws. One reviewer complained that she had stripped out the screws trying to change the batteries, so I took the stopwatch to a hardware store, to insure I bought the correct special small ‘jewelers’ type screwdriver. The screws were quite tight (probably for the ‘watertight’ claim) but with care, overcoming the initial tightness, fortunately was able to get all 6 screws unfastened. NOTE: perform this procedure in a carefully controlled environment, like on a white towel, (my screws were black) to ensure the tiny screws don’t roll away or get lost! Fortunately, after putting in a new battery, the stopwatch started working again! BUT, after carefully replacing the screws (not forcing them, because sometimes the screws felt like they were initially cross threaded!) After replacing the screws, I intentionally did NOT ‘over tighten’ them, to avoid stripping them out. The claimed ‘watertightness’ is now probably compromised, but I don’t plan on dropping it in water! A sticker on the back of this watch, in very tiny print, stated the warranty was good until October 2021. After that, if you pay $12, they will fix it until October 2025. Since the Battery was Dead On Arrival, I wonder if this stopwatch spent several years sitting on a shelf in some warehouse? In spite of it all, I still like this stopwatch, since I’m not going to use it for athletic events. I’m going to use it while watching specific television shows on different streaming television channels, to time the length of commercials they pad into the TV shows, to determine if any particular streaming channel, is adding in more commercials, compared to a different streaming TV channel!

I bought this stopwatch to replace a Radio Shack stopwatch I've had for 20 years - thought the batter had died, but when I took it apart to look for the battery it started working again (water seal shot in the process of taking it apart though). Bought this stopwatch as a replacement. It's about a quarter the heft of the Radio Shack (both made in China) - it's light as a feather. It keeps very accurate time (in clock mode) and the stopwatch functions pretty well, though I find the button mechanism a bit flimsy. It does not employ a backlit function, which I occasionally found very useful. It wasn't clear on the stopwatch or instructions what kind of battery it takes (some of these, identical-looking) take two batteries - so I took it apart. It does indeed take a single CR2032 battery. It's easy over years of time to loose track of the battery required, so I feel the mfg is remiss in not stamping the battery model on the back of the case. I like the more solid (and rubberized) feel of the heavier Radio Shack stopwatch, but the bottom line is (with minimal use so far) it seems to do the job well, as long as you don't require a backlit display button. Finally you NEED the instructions to hit the proper combinations of buttons (not intuitive) to set the time or specify 12-hour or 24-hour time, etc. So apart from these issues, it does what it's supposed to at what I consider a bargain for a stopwatch.

I bought two of these as substitutes for the now-discontinued Robic Silvers and they're great for roller derby NSOing, start/stop and reset are intuitive and easy to pick up without having to look down.

Great product gets the job done

Military, spend a lot of time in the field. I use a stopwatch on a regular basis, so usually have this around my neck. It gets beat around a lot and has held up reasonably well. It keeps good time, which is important. Time in our radios must be synched up +/- 5 seconds. I synch this to "Zulu" time (GMT) about once a week from a GPS receiver, and it stays accurate. Also very convenient that it can be set to military time. Stopwatch function is simple and easy to use. Cheap enough I keep a couple spares, and don't care if it gets busted (hasn't happened yet) or gets lost. The cord is a good length, and has a snap which is designed to come apart if too much tension is applied. It's saved my neck a couple times when the stopwatch has gotten snagged. However, over time, the snap closure loosens up a bit, so it's not as secure as it once was.

I bought this stopwatch for timing my son, who recently started running. The stopwatch is great for use on a track . . . for timing speed workouts, etc. The buttons are big and easy to use, and likewise the display is nice and big to see. But there is one big PROBLEM with the stopwatch, that Accusplit needs to FIX. My son also does distance training runs. And even though the stopwatch clearly advertises on the face of it 1/100 seconds, what happens is that this function ceases to work at 40 minutes. It's not that I need the hundreds of a second on long runs, but the actual display becomes quite annoying. One moment the stopwatch is counting quickly, counting minutes, seconds, and hundreds. Then suddenly, it is only timing minutes and seconds. The reason this is annoying? The first several times this happened, the 'perception' is that the stopwatch had STOPPED, and I thought I had bumped it or accidentally hit a button. It took watching it during several distance runs, when I just happened to be looking at it just past 39 minutes to realize what was happening. I could understand if the hundreds disappeared at 1 hour, due to the lack of digits. But the amount of digits at 39:59:99 are exactly the same as what it SHOULD be at 40:00.00. But instead it is now only showing 40:00. Accusplit should immediately fix this problem. I actually called Accusplit about this, thinking I had a malfunctioning stopwatch. But after several calls, they got back to me and simply said "This is the way it was designed." My question is: "WHY?". If they would simply fix this, I would have rated the stopwatch with 5 Stars. But this weird anomaly causes me to only give it 3 Stars. I simply want others purchasing this stopwatch to be aware of this oddity on it. If you ONLY plan to use it for short distances on a track, it would be a great watch. But for distance running workouts, not so great.